Indohyus looked like a mouse-deer or a large racoon, but had the ears of a whale—and its fossil was found high up in the Himalayas.
Indohyus looked like a mouse-deer or a large racoon, but had the ears of a whale—and its fossil was, dolphins and porpoises—evolved from the few terrestrial mammals that weren’t impressed with what the land had to offer and returned to the more copious seas. Little is known about this reverse-journey, which has puzzled scientists for decades.
This classification was not easy to realize; evolutionary zoologists spent decades pondering where cetaceans came from, as they are not quite like any other marine life or even mammals.Unbeknownst to scientists in the west, and decades before they realized the connection between whales and pigs, a strange fossil was unearthed. It was found as far away from the seas as you could get—in the western Himalayas of Indo-Pakistan.
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